Under suitable conditions on f(t, y(t)(theta)), the boundary value problem
of second-order functional differential equation (FDE) with the form:
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has at least one positive solution. Moreover, we also apply this main resul
t to establish several existence theorems which guarantee (BVP) has the mul
tiple positive solutions. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserve
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